Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-23

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will take it in his paws, sit up on his
launches, throw back his head and
then swig down the fluid with the con-
tented air of an old topper.
The Mckee company of Yakima has
gathered four acres of tobacco and it
Is now in the curing house, completely
filling that structure, which is 60x3O
feet on the ground floor and 15 feet in,
height. The estimated yield is be-
tween seven and eight hundred pounds
OF cured tobacco per acre. The COM
pany will pack in cases, when cured,
and ship it to the East, unless some
Coast manufacturer makes favorable
offer for the whole crop. The curing
process has developed that the leaf is
of very fine quality.
John Robertson has leased the prop
erty at Coveland, belonging to DR.. H.
c. Wilson of Port Townsend, for a
term of years, and has taken into part
nership, Captain H. Roeder of What
com, and A. w. Arnold and George B.
Libby of WILDLY Island. They have
recently completed a wharf on the
premises, removed the warehouse to a
new point, and have all the facilities
for shipment of farm produce, etc,
which will be great convenience to
the farmers of that vicinity, as there is
a large quantity of grain and potatoes
grown there.
Walt Schumacher and Carl
Dusenbery have been out fishing
during the week, says the Walla Walla
Statesman. Walt lost his sinker and
substituted little brass key, on Thurs
day last, but the fish got away with the
key and a piece of the line. Yes
terday the key was found in a can of
salmon which was shipped up to
Walla Walla from Astoria. The trout
had swallowed the key, and the salmon
had swallowed the trout, the fisherman
had captured the salmon hundreds of
miles away in the Columbia river, and
the key turns up safe and sound in
Walla Walla after journey of thou
sands of miles in the space of less
than a week.
GOldendale Sentinel: The North
ern Pacific is inaugurating move
ment to put boats on the upper river
so as to command the grain trade of
the upper Columbia. Thie will give it
the control of the grain market above
Cello in Eastern Oregon, and will
completely shut off the o. r. & N.
company from the trade of the inland
empire and Eastern Washington
Territory. Our farmers should not
hasten to sell their grain if they are
able to hold it for short time, rs the
effect OF the recent wheat collapse on
the market, mention of which is made
elsewhere, will be of short duration
besides, if the N. P. do as they are
contemplating, completion to the sea
will give us still better returns.
Tacoma Ledger Nelson Bennett says
that last month on the west end of the
Cascade tunnel his workmen made PIT
feet through a wall plate in the tunnel.
Mr.. Bennet claims this is the best re-
cord OF tunneling ever made in Amer.
lea under similar circumstances. By
q wall plate is meant place where the
ground is bad and timbering has to be
constructed on the top of the first
bench Immediately in the heading and
at the extreme face of the tunnel.
WOrkmen, therefore, have to do all
their shooting and heavy blasting un-
der these timbers without knocking
down the timber work. The east end
is doing equally as we'll now, but they
were delayed some last month. The
tunnel is now bored about 5000 feet
and Mr.. Bennett expects to finish it by
June of 1883.